Microsoft has updated Security Advisory 2847140 (Internet Explorer 8).

Henceforth the Fix it is available to all Microsoft customers, and aims to help prevent known attacks that leverage the vulnerability to execute code. No reboot is required.  Users of

Internet Explorer 8 have to apply this Fix it to help protect their systems.

According to Microsoft the Fix it is an effort to help protect as many customers as possible, as quickly as possible. Therefore Microsoft continues to work on a security update to address this issue and invite tomorrow, to visit their monthly Advance Notification Service (ANS) blog for details on the Security Updates being released in May’s Security Bulletin cycle.

Note: Internet Explorer 6, 7, 9 and 10 are not affected.